[quote=@Ammokkx]What?

Skype is missing the easy tabs of discord as well as being more annoying to get people into a group chat to begin with. You need to go out of the way to exchange contact addresses and then add someone, while with Discord you can just toss out an invite link to anyone who's willing to spare the time to join it.

Chatzy is primarily a website, not an app, meaning you always have to have a tab open you need to check, as well as generally not having nearly the slick UI or QoL features Discord does.

Pads are even worse in that aspect. I literally never saw those used for OOC banter outside the context of the collab post that was trying to be created, so you have to question how [i]OOC[/i] the banter truly is.

Discord has the perfect elements of a clean UI, easy to join, easy to moderate, easy to set-up and easy to separate program. While I'm sure a better chatroom app could be developed, Discord is currently the perfect storm to en-masse reroute discussion from OOCs into its own chat. It's almost an extension rather than a replacement; a "fourth tab" as you would. It has the benefit of being live, not based in a web browser and you can customize how many notifications you want to get from it.

The only downside to discord is that it [i]is[/i] an app, and you [i]do[/i] need an account, so some people are just not going to want to bother and that's fair. It's still a vastly superior experience to the mentioned three with features or elements to it they lacked and are crucial to the kind of shift we see now.
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To clarify, my point is that we used all of these methods in some capacity similar to a discord and it did at times reduce OOC banter in threads though I won't deny Discord is more efficient due to how it has all capacities of a chatroom and instant messenger in one easy, accessible place. Back in 2013, before Guildfall, I was in a number of skype group chats for even insignificant RPs that went nowhere though sometimes people preferred Chatzy and were insistent on using it.

Wasn't saying they were mechanically or absolutely the same.